http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john/tags/activism/ Thoughts from the Foothills of Life's Learning Curve en John Casey Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:04:57 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john/2008/02/13/1202917423916.html I’ve been reading about the potential for future environmental catastrophe for awhile now, branching out as I went into books that studied collapsed cultures of the past and on to other topics even farther afield. You could call it my second great education, because although I always knew there was the potential for danger in the phrase ‘global warming’, I only recently awoke to a fuller understanding of its implications. From environmental studies and a sort of anthro-ecological history if you like, I found myself taking a sidetrack that would lead me to staring at another perilous danger of our time: peak oil. Along the way, while studying both of these topics through books, documentaries, podcasts, blogs, and plain-old web research, I kept coming back to the idea of getting back to local communities of people you trust. Whether it’s escaping the addiction to a petroleum supply that’s running out, or finding the most effective way to curtail my contribution to climate change, ... http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john/2008/02/13/1202917423916.html#comments http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john/2008/02/13/1202917423916.html Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:43:43 GMT